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unicornduke:
bomberqueen17 replied to your post “dreamwidth update: First Seeds Have Arrived!”
If you grow chives, grow them either in a pot or in a border or something because they will Take Over.
that’s really good to know! Thanks! I’ve never grown them before but if I do it will be in a pot because that does not need to be in the field.
I would append a photo if I could lay my hands easily on one, but– last year my sister decided to move the perennials out of the farm’s picking garden and use them to replace the front lawn. So now the old picking garden is all annuals and they’re converting it to no-till, and the former lawn is perennial herbs and flowers.
She moved all of the chives, divided them, and made them into a solid line that is the entire front border of the bed. There’s still an expanse of grass there, between the herbs and the gravel apron that lines the highway– the grass is there to catch the salt runoff and pollutants from the road. But instead of trying to make a border out of mulch or stones or anything, she used the chives.
Because chives will outcompete grass, and nothing else will.
I had a small patch of chives next to my driveway for years. They took over the entire patch, and then as the driveway’s center seam got wider (it was old and needed replacement) they showed up growing out of the middle of the goddamn driveway, where they persisted until I had the entire driveway redone last summer.
They’re really great, though. And when they bloom, you can eat the flowers! Chive flowers are cute little purple balls and they look and taste great in a salad. And once you have chives, you have them all the time; they’re pretty much constantly usable, except maybe first thing in spring, and once there’s snowpack. But the rest of the time, the leaves are usable.
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unicornduke:
bomberqueen17 replied to your post “dreamwidth update: First Seeds Have Arrived!”
If you grow chives, grow them either in a pot or in a border or something because they will Take Over.
that’s really good to know! Thanks! I’ve never grown them before but if I do it will be in a pot because that does not need to be in the field.
I would append a photo if I could lay my hands easily on one, but– last year my sister decided to move the perennials out of the farm’s picking garden and use them to replace the front lawn. So now the old picking garden is all annuals and they’re converting it to no-till, and the former lawn is perennial herbs and flowers.
She moved all of the chives, divided them, and made them into a solid line that is the entire front border of the bed. There’s still an expanse of grass there, between the herbs and the gravel apron that lines the highway– the grass is there to catch the salt runoff and pollutants from the road. But instead of trying to make a border out of mulch or stones or anything, she used the chives.
Because chives will outcompete grass, and nothing else will.
I had a small patch of chives next to my driveway for years. They took over the entire patch, and then as the driveway’s center seam got wider (it was old and needed replacement) they showed up growing out of the middle of the goddamn driveway, where they persisted until I had the entire driveway redone last summer.
They’re really great, though. And when they bloom, you can eat the flowers! Chive flowers are cute little purple balls and they look and taste great in a salad. And once you have chives, you have them all the time; they’re pretty much constantly usable, except maybe first thing in spring, and once there’s snowpack. But the rest of the time, the leaves are usable.
(Your picture was not posted)
